Morality's Muddy Waters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morality's Muddy Waters write by George Cotkin. This book was released on 2011-06-06. Morality's Muddy Waters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the face of an uncertain and dangerous world, Americans yearn for a firm moral compass, a clear set of ethical guidelines. But as history shows, by reducing complex situations to simple cases of right or wrong we often go astray. In Morality's Muddy Waters, historian George Cotkin offers a clarion call on behalf of moral complexity. Revisiting several defining moments in the twentieth century—the American bombing of civilians during World War II, the My Lai massacre, racism in the South, capital punishment, the invasion of Iraq—Cotkin chronicles how historical figures have grappled with the problem of evil and moral responsibility—sometimes successfully, oftentimes not. In the process, he offers a wide-ranging tour of modern American history. Taken together, Cotkin maintains, these episodes reveal that the central concepts of morality—evil, empathy, and virtue—are both necessary and troubling. Without empathy, for example, we fail to inhabit the world of others; with it, we sometimes elevate individual suffering over political complexities. For Cotkin, close historical analysis may help reenergize these concepts for ethical thinking and acting. Morality's Muddy Waters argues for a moral turn in the way we study and think about history, maintaining that even when answers to ethical dilemmas prove elusive, the act of grappling with them is invaluable.
Just War Theory and Civilian Casualties
Just War Theory and Civilian Casualties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just War Theory and Civilian Casualties write by Marcus Schulzke. This book was released on 2017-08-10. Just War Theory and Civilian Casualties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the inadequacies of just war theory and international law regarding civilian rights, developing new principles of individual restorative justice.
Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century
Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century write by Paul Nolte. This book was released on 2016-10-10. Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transatlantic democracy in the 20th century - this concept goes beyond the idea of an American civilizing mission in Europe after two World Wars, and certainly beyond the notion of re-educating Germans, and making them fit for Western institutions after Nazism. As democracy is being contested anew in the beginning of the 21st century, a much more complicated landscape of democracy since 1900 emerges. Transfer was not a one-way-street, and patterns of conflict and transformation affected both American and European political societies. American democracy may not be reduced to a resilient defense of original traditions, while the narrative of German democracy is more than redemption from catastrophe. The essays in this volume contribute to a new history of transatlantic democracy that accounts for its manifold experiences and constant renegotiations, up to the current challenges of American and European populism.
Uncertain Empire
Uncertain Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncertain Empire write by Joel Isaac. This book was released on 2012-09-06. Uncertain Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uncertain Empire examines the idea of the Cold War and its application to the writing of American history.
Morality
Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morality write by James Platt. This book was released on 1878. Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
